On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 05:12:46PM -0400, Therese Trudeau enlightened us: > OK Some progress anyway, by not putting in the port twice I got a connecrtion. But as before, > when I connected un securely, OpenOffice freezes up and crashes after about one minute, > whether or not it's through port 3306, or through 3307 & SSH. Sounds like an OOo problem, then. When I briefly tried testing it, there was a couple of driver options to connect to MySQL, you might try using the one you're not (IIRC one was ODBC and the other was JDBC). Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263